Police stumble onto hooning offence

POLICE were on patrol at Mackay Harbour on a Thursday night when they stopped to speak with a group of youths and one youngster asked: "Are you here for the Commodore which just hit the parked car?"

The police had accidentally stumbled onto a hooning offence.

The officers noticed that there was a Hi-Lux vehicle parked about one metre outside its parking bay and that it had been pushed there by the force of a collision.

Seventeen-year-old Jordan Kattenberg voluntarily told police he'd been driving around a roundabout when he accelerated and accidentally hit the parked car. He pleaded guilty in the Mackay Magistrate's Court yesterday to driving without reasonable consideration for other road-users on Mulherin Dr on August 4.

Sentencing was adjourned to October 26 to enable him to do a defensive driving course.